China Education Symposium is a student organization at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. We strive to promote conversations on education in China and to support education initiatives aimed at improving China’s education. China Education Symposium currently has more than 400 members made up of scholars, policy makers, business leaders and students interested in improving China’s education.

The China Education Symposium Annual Conference is held in May. The theme of the Conference is to discuss issues related to the education in China. As China has unequivocally developed its economic prowess in recent decades, its education has not kept up. Major issues in education are becoming more than ever sources of disenchantment and dissatisfaction. The theme of the 2013 China Education Symposium Conference was China’s Education Reform in the Globalized World. Distinguished guest speakers from academia, government, the non-profit sector and the business world convened in Cambridge for two days to share their insights on China’s education reform in the new age of globalization with more than 200 attendees from Harvard and the Boston area. Past speakers at the China Education Symposium included Professor Howard Gardner, Professor Fernando Reimers, presenters from Teach for China, Harvard China SEED, and Sunshine Library, etc…

The theme of the 2014 Annual Conference is Can China Lead? Education and Leadership in the Globalized World. Professor William Kirby from Harvard University will deliver a keynote speech on China’s higher education and leadership. Distinguished scholars, policy makers and entrepreneurs will also share their insights from the perspectives of higher education, basic education, innovation and entrepreneurship, and better education for all.

We are a leading online homework platform connecting K-12 teachers, students, and parents in China. Teachers can create classes on 17zuoye, and then set up their own practices for students using resources and apps from 17zuoye. From adaptive learning algorithms, students then get individualized practices generated by our system. By Mar 2014, there are over 20K schools, around 100K teachers and 6M registered students using 17zuoye in China.

Little Angel Action Fund (LAA) was established in Beijing in 2008, under China Youth Development Foundation. A-Action Youth Action for Change is a project that empowers Chinese youth to initiate their community projects to make a difference by providing them with guidance and funds. We believe that youth are not the leader of tomorrow; they are the leader today. Up to April 2014, A-Action had supported 241 projects in which about 1,000 students participated in various cities in China.

To gather youth from all around the world, make the congregational power of youth to result in a more positive influence in the global community. We strive to help the global youth develop their leadership and citizenship by serving the community, working for the Global Actions, and getting involved in World Youth Value Society.

Vision & Mission: Together, we explore the culture, get insight and make influence.

Region of service: China

Target of service：everyone

Think in a different way, and set your foot on a different path. Rediscover Culture Organization, consisting of members of China Education Symposium of Harvard Graduate School of Education, who studied in the United States, such as in Harvard University, Simmons College, etc., endeavors to bring the profound Chinese culture to the world. Believing in “Together, we explore the culture, get insight and make influence”, we invite you to join our annual cultural exploration trek.

Vision & Mission: To serve the rural poor in Yunnan Province of China through teaching, research, and clinical care.

Region of Service: Yunnan Province

Target of service: rural poor

Since 2006, “China California Heart Watch” has used innovative and sustainable methods to combat the growing epidemic of heart disease in the Yunnan Province, China. Our overarching mission is to serve the rural-poor in China through: 1) Training local healthcare professionals in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease; 2) Improving access to high-quality healthcare and life-saving treatments’ and 3) Researching the epidemiology of heart disease, the effectiveness of our interventions, and other topics of critical value to rural Chinese populations.

Vision & Mission: To educate students with curiosity, scientific spirit, and love.

Region of service: mainly in Beijing

Target of service: age 3-18

Driven by the researches done by preschool educators from international preschool education organization and Beijing Normal University, Elite Growing Educational Organization focuses on school preparation, cultivation of good habits and character development of preschool students.

Vision & Mission: By facilitating personalized, high quality mentorship between Chinese youth and students from top universities around the world, GPS helps shape a generation of more informed, entrepreneurial, and productive “new citizens” in China.

Region of service: Mainland China

Target of service: Chinese High School Students

Global Peer Support (GPS) in China is a global community that relies on different modes of interactions to guide Chinese adolescents towards mental wellness and empowerment during their formative high school years. Our project will be amongst the pioneers in the nation that promote such elaborative collaboration between high school students and experienced young adults. Our web-based service platform matches well-trained university students to provide tailored high quality mentorship to high-school students who are in need of guidance and support. Such a connection and one-on-one mentorship, we believe, can help address uncomfortable issues or problems that may not be shared with teachers or parents, and therefore contribute to the holistic well being of the adolescents. We are currently at the piloting phase, and we look forward to having new talents join us!

Children’s Cooperation Center supports to develop children’s all-around capability and personality, including confidence, cooperation, communication, empathy and creativity. The Children’s Cooperation Center was developed as a corrective to the narrow emphasis placed on examination results. We used tested methods that allow children to obtain a more balanced education, with special attention given to character building. These methods depend on cooperative relationships among various social groups who jointly share the responsibility of providing our children with a broader education, by efficiently using the resources of the few to provide for the many. These groups include parents, schools, students and others who can teach our children valuable lessons, share resources and experiences, provide psychological support, and create social awareness in a social awareness in a broader setting.

We help youth incorporate their heads (Knowledge), hearts (Passion), and hands (Action) while cultivating their self-awareness of leadership and social responsibility (Society + Responsibility).

We provide programs, host events and build youth community that aim to evaluate and implement new ideas and/or advance existing technology for social benefits that consider the domino-effect efforts that innovation brings to public health and the development of humanity in our society.

GYOUTH has been supported by students from Ivy-caliber schools in the US and China, such as Harvard, MIT, Boston College, and University of Pennsylvania. We offer internship and volunteer opportunities. If you’re interested in joining us, please feel free to contact hning@gyouth.org.

The Mosaic Project

Contact: Shu Cao Mo, moshucao@gmail.com

Vision & Mission: To encourage creativity among young people in China.

Region of service: Beijing, Yunan, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

Target of service: migrant-rural children and urban youths.

Currently, it is a project funded by Duke University. We are hoping to become an independent non-profit at the beginning of 2015.

Blue Oak 蓝橡树

WeChat Official Account: “蓝橡树”（ID: blue_oak）

Contact: Weiqi Zhang, zhangweiqi10@gmail.com

Vision & Mission: Helping families make better education decisions

Region of service: China

Target of service: Parents of K-12 students who are thinking about sending their children to study abroad

We are a leading platform for information, community, and services related to international education. By connecting Chinese parents with education experts, experienced teachers, and overseas students, we aim to provide high-quality information on international education. Through our online platform and offline activities, we hope to increase the transparency of international education in China and help Chinese parents make better education decisions for their children.

Vision: To see every child loved and developed to one’s fullest potential through the arts.

Mission: Place art at the heart of work with, for and by children and young people from at risk communities; Provide care, love and development; Facilitate the creation of high quality art led by artists.

Region of Service: Beijing

Target of Service: Migrant children

We seek to develop a network of quality arts educators who can engage children in the artistic process, fulfilling children’s long-term need for self-development and emotional support. Dean D’Art mainly conducts weekly arts education program and arts summer camps for children-at-risk currently.

We listen, we record and we share. Founded on July 6th, 2013, Learn From Everyone (LFE) is a non-profit organization that transforms experiences into conversations and inspires new thoughts and perspectives. First created by four college students, LFE attempts to connect people based on the idea that everyone is worth learning from. Today, LFE has grown to a team of 23 members and more than 1000 followers. We interview people from anywhere to everywhere, and share their knowledge everyday.

Target of service: The middle school students in the rural area and AIC students

5E Summer Camp, an exchange program that embodies AIC’s commitment to education equality and belief in the lasting social impacts of youth empowerment, was launched by AIC Education in 2011. The 5E Summer Camp is thus named for its core values of equality, exchange, enrichment, environment, and empowerment. Each year AIC Education provides 5-7 local campers scholarship, which is about 2000 RMB, to cover their study and daily expense.

Zuxi She is a Master’s candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Education and his research focus is in liberal arts education. Before coming here, He taught art history in China for 3 years. Zuxi received his Bachelor’s degree at Sorbonne University in France and a Master’s degree at the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom.

James Liao is a User Experience Consultant and Developer at Microsoft with customers in the US and across the Asia region. For over 7 years, he has also worked with Chinese rural teachers and migrant children developing IT solutions for rural libraries, schools, NGOs, and teaching them the power of technology in the classroom as well as different learning methodologies.

Joycelyn Eby is an Ed.M. student in the International Education Policy program at HGSE. She spent three years in Beijing working for Junior Achievement China and Beijing Normal University. A native of Seattle, Washington, she received undergraduate degrees in East Asian Studies and Bassoon Performance from Oberlin College and Conservatory.

Danxi Shen is from Hangzhou, China. She is an Ed.M. student in International Education Policy at HGSE, and founder of Dean D’Art, an organization that runs high quality drama education programs for migrant children.